Welcome to Chez Cliff!

If there’s one benefit to blogging, it’s definitely the amount of help I’m getting.  And I appreciate every one of your comments and suggestions.

Sometimes, I cannot explain my problem because I just don’t know terminology.  Well today you get to endure a picture that I drew.  As Doctor Emmet Brown, from Back to the Future, would say "Please forgive the crudity of this model.  I didn’t have time to build it to scale."

In the sketch, you can see the ceiling, roof-line, and the housing for the recessed lighting.  The blue lines are the shingles.

I figure there is 4 or 4 1/2 inches between the ceiling and the roof line.

The height of the housing is the driving factor here.  The shortest housing I have been able to find is 5 1/2 inches.  This forces the fixture to stick out approximately 1 inch.

The housing must be installed to prevent the heat from the lightbulb burning the roof, insulation, or whatnot.  Contrary to popular belief, fire in a house is bad.

When selling recessed lighting, the sizes can come in 3, 4 or 5 inches.  This, unfortunately, does not refer to the depth of the lights.  It refers to the width, which I labeled dimension "X" in the sketch.

Therein lies my problem.

To every single one of you, have a great Memorial Day weekend.  I plan on spending some time, hiking around Lake Isabella.

I’ll see you back here on Tuesday.  Enjoy!